Tag: sencha

I’ve been meaning to write this for nearly a year, but I held off hoping things would change with the next release. They didn’t, so I’m writing this: the Clipboard plugin for the Ext.grid.Panel class – which provides cut-and-paste support for the enhanced table widget – is borked by design. It does stupid things, and Sencha says it should do the stupid things. In this post I share what these things are, and how I’ve overriden the default behaviour to do something hopefully less stupid. Warning: this is a rant.

Sencha recently announced the general availability of ExtJS 6.2. People who regularly read my posts (hi, to all three of you. 😉 will be aware that I’ve been working with the ExtJS library for a number of years now, while building a suite of apps of some not inconsiderable size1. It’s probably not the largest ExtJS app in the world, but it’s up there. And when you work on an application for a number of years, you’ll need to upgrade its framework from time to time.

Every time I’ve done this, the process has been a bit different. This time, it’s different in a good way – it was easy.